The College of Law at the University of Baghdad discussed a master’s thesis in the criminal law branch of student Solaf Luhan Muhammad, tagged with (Penal Protection of Public Health from Epidemics – a comparative study), on Tuesday 20/9/2022 in the conference hall of the college.
The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Nawal Tariq Ibrahim as Chairman, Assistant Professor Dr. Sabah Sami Daoud as a member, Assistant Professor Dr. Maysoon Khalaf Hamad as a member, and Assistant Professor Dr. Alaa Nasser Hussein as a member and supervisor.
This thesis aims to pay attention to what the reality showed of the seriousness of behaviors that cause the spread of epidemics and the diversity and difference of these behaviors that led to the continuous increase in the spread of epidemics and the increase in the number of victims, and what this leads to in the society, as the whole society may become infected with infectious diseases The victim becomes a criminal and falls under criminal responsibility.
The thesis also included three chapters, the first of which dealt with the conceptual framework, the second chapter, images of crimes harmful to public health, and the third chapter dealt with the punishment prescribed for the crime of spreading a dangerous disease.
The most important recommendations of the study are the development of unified legislation to organize criminal protection to prevent epidemics so that its texts are easy to apply, as did the French legislator and the Egyptian legislator, the Iraqi legislator should make health precautions for the prevention of epidemics an obligatory matter and not a passive matter for the health authorities, we recommend the legislator to distinguish between the infected offender And the right, because the right offender is a victim and needs health and procedural care, it is not possible to uphold public health and neglect the rights of a person infected with an infectious disease.
